Burns Brian May Red Special set up

This is 'Brian's Burns Brian May Red Special. Yes, Brian is a made up name in a lame attempt to protect a GAS-afflicted individual from marital conflict :D First thing to say is that while this is a singular and recognisable guitar (designed by Brian May and his father Harold with a mixture of common-sense and innovation) it is still 'just' a guitar. In that sense it suffers from the basic guitar set up faults: this 2nd hand one arrived so badly 'set up' that it's no wonder that the previous owner sold it. To have tried to play it in that state would have been the most.... disappointing experience.
As a guitar, it was designed with intelligence and inspiration with Brian and his dad knowing exactly what they were after. The result is a unique guitar that is resonant and feeds back in a controllable, usable way. With the 3 Burns 'TriSonic' pickups it delivers a clang-y tone that's completely unlike a Strat. Add to that the Rangemaster treble boost and a hot Vox AC30 valve amp and you've got the tones that Brian used to create and define the sound of Queen.
This Burns version of the 'Red Special' is a credible version and the first commercially-available Red Special to the masses. It's very similar to the later BHM Guitars version (where Brian set up and controlled the production of this iconic model); the main differences being the kind of bridge used. In the BHM Guitars version the bridge is a Wilkinson model, here it's a Burns Of London model.
In all the important ways, the Burns model is a great Red Special. It's only flaws are slightly lifting fret ends (causing occasional annoying E string hook-ups), a general tendency to be slightly heavy... and - perhaps most irritating of all, a clash between the front edge of the bridge and the back edge of the thick pickguard as shown in the video thumbnail.
If this was my guitar, I would probably find somewhere to stash a little lead ballast to balance the guitar up better and I'd have to 'edit' that pickguard to allow the free range of movement of the bridge plate when tilting forwards for big down bends.
In summary; these criticisms are relatively minor. The Burns Red Special is a very good reproduction of one of the most iconic electric guitars in rock and with a good set up and fret work no different from other quality brands it's a great instrument. There's an irony here in that the first people who would have rejected the compromises and slight quality issues would have been Brian May and his dad Harold themselves. Why? Because they would have thought this through in advance and designed these flaws OUT of the finished guitar. What we see here are some of the compromises that come out of consumerism and mass manufacturing.